Creating Report Backgrounds for Power BI

Creating Report Backgrounds for Power BIPower BI allows you to create amazing visualizations from your data. You can easily get carried away and create hundreds of different combinations.  Once you have worked out the best way to summarize and display your data, chances are your Power BI report screen will look something like this:My report above […]

What happens when an audience is removed from a DocRead configured document?

What happens when an audience is removed from a DocRead configured document?Note: The information in this post relates to DocRead for on-premises SharePoint only. This blog post will explain what happens to tasks and reading receipts when a SharePoint Group or SharePoint Global Audience is removed from a previously configured document in DocRead for SharePoint. Let’s assumed […]

Summarizing DocRead tasks in Power BI

Summarizing DocRead Task Information in Power BIAll of the DocRead task data is stored in a SQL database, meaning that it is available for further analysis and reporting with Power BI. Here’s how to create a summary of all DocRead tasks showing the reading status (assigned, completed, overdue) in Power BI. The end result will look […]

Creating an Audience report for your document

Who has read your key documents?Ensuring the right people have read and understood key documents is key to any compliance process. After spending precious time creating your policies, procedures and other important documents, you need to make sure they have the desired effect. The relevant employees need to thoroughly understand your expectations and standards. Today’s […]

Create a Reporting Hierarchy in Power BI

Create a Reporting Hierarchy in Power BI Creating hierarchies in your Power BI data provides opportunities to further enhance reporting capabilities. For instance, Power BI will automatically calculate a date hierarchy. This will allow you to drill down from annual data, to quarters, months and days. You can also create bespoke hierarchies within your data to […]

Automated content targeting in SharePoint with DocRead Reading tasks

Automated content targeting in SharePoint with DocRead Reading TasksNote:  This content applies to the on-premise version of DocRead only. For the Office 365 version have a look here. What is a Reading Task? A DocRead ‘Reading Task’ is something an end-user must complete when they are required (or recommended) to read a document by a specified deadline. […]

How to target SharePoint content with DocRead

How to target SharePoint content with DocReadHaving amazing content stored in SharePoint is great, but how do you ensure people know where to find it? Targeting SharePoint content to groups of users is easier than you may think!This post shows how easy it is to use DocRead to target documents, or any other content stored in SharePoint. […]

The Effect of Reset Task on Receipts

The Effect of Reset Task on ReceiptsReset task can be really useful if you already have a policy assigned by DocRead to the relevant audience and simply need to update / refresh the policy and get everyone to re-acknowledge the new policy. Before we look at what changes when you reset a task, let’s take a […]

How to migrate DocRead from SharePoint 2016 to SharePoint 2019

How to Migrate DocRead from SharePoint 2016 to SharePoint 2019Note: The information in this post relates to DocRead for on-premises SharePoint only. If you are considering migrating your SharePoint 2016 Farm to SharePoint 2019 then please read through this article for steps on how to achieve this. Before proceeding, it’s important that you read ‘migrating between editions‘ […]

How to update multiple documents in a SharePoint document library with PowerShell

How to update multiple documents in a SharePoint document library with PowerShellWe recently received a query for DocRead to see if it was possible to set the ‘Required Audience’ and ‘Acknowledgement Days’ to about 100 policies on mass (via a script). Hence, being one who is always up for a challenge, I loaded up PowerGUI and […]